Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

While Blue Owl itself would not participate in the merger, it owns stakes in firms that could, including infrastructure investors like Stonepeak and I Squared Capital, as well as private equity groups like Vista Equity Partners, Silver Lake, and Platinum Equity.

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JULY 5, 2024

Buyout firm EQT AB is teaming up with Germany’s richest man to acquire a 35% stake in German bus and train operator Flix SE. Rich Families Private equity firms clinched more than $30 billion of deals around the world last week, raising hopes for a revival in mergers and acquisitions following a slow first half of the year.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Blackstone and JP Morgan Chase’s healthcare investment arm Morgan Health will take minority stakes. The HealthComp and Virgin Pulse merger comes as private equity deals have decreased from pandemic-fueled highs. New Mountain will maintain majority ownership of the combined company, while Marlin will retain a minority position.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

The needle-moving acquisition would enhance the company's portfolio and extend its growth profile. Drilling down into the deal Chevron unveiled its merger agreement with Hess last October, less than two weeks after Exxon revealed its more than $60 billion megamerger with Pioneer Natural Resources. A merger or an asset purchase?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Private investment giant Blackstone, in partnership with smaller investors, is acquiring a majority stake in Citrin Cooperman, a US accounting firm, in a deal that values the company at over $2bn, according to a report by the Financial Times. Private equity has driven a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the accounting sector.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Nvidia, which owns a small stake in SoundHound, also integrates Houndify's services into its Drive platform for connected vehicles. SoundHound went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in 2022 and subsequently expanded by acquiring the restaurant tech companies SYNQ3 and Allset.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Acquisitions are another big driver of distribution growth for Enterprise. The company has a long history of making accretive deals, from large-scale corporate mergers to asset acquisitions. It also bought that MLP's stake in the Panola Pipeline for $25 million, boosting its stake to 70%.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

The wave has flowed down into the midstream sector, where leading players Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) and Oneok (NYSE: OKE) have made headline-grabbing acquisitions. Midstream merger mania The pipeline sector has faced its share of headwinds in recent years. billion cash-and-equity acquisition of privately held Lotus Midstream.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The main draw was Hess' 30% stake in the Exxon-operated Stabroek block offshore Guyana. However, Exxon and its other partner in Guyana, China's CNOOC , now say the deal will trigger a change-of-control provision, enabling them to increase their stakes in Stabroek. It currently remains committed to the merger despite this latest issue.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

After all, he's owned it since he helped arrange a merger to create the entity in 2015. The merger was worth roughly $45 billion, creating a food giant that owns such famous brands as Kraft, Heinz, Oscar Meyer, Kool-Aid, Jell-O, Capri-Sun, and more. However, the merger also loaded up the new entity with debt. Is it stubbornness?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It's not just a user of AI to add value to its solutions; it also has a significant stake in a quantum computing business that management plans to monetize. Moreover, Kapur noted that "we are committed to demonstrating a path to monetization of our stake within the next 18 months." Image source: Getty Images.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway's combined stake in Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) , Kroger (NYSE: KR) , and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) amounted to over $25 billion at the end of 2023's third quarter. Kroger: There's tremendous value in large grocery chains John Ballard (Kroger): Berkshire held a stake in Kroger of about $2.2 billion at the end of 2023's Q3.

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JULY 27, 2024

But there's a reason Warren Buffett's kept a sizable Kraft Heinz stake in Berkshire Hathway 's portfolio since melding the two food companies into one back in 2015. A merger that underperformed on multiple levels If you're not familiar with the saga, here's the shortened version of the story. That is, he still sees hope.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

15, SoundHound AI stock rocketed 67% higher following news that " Magnificent Seven " member Nvidia had disclosed a stake in the company. Why the stock is moving higher SoundHound AI went public in 2022 with the help of a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ). Following its 67% gain on Thursday, SoundHound stock trades at $3.76.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

A wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity has washed over the oil patch in the last year. Several midstream companies have made acquisitions, while the rumor mill suggests others are on the prowl. The master limited partnership (MLP) has made several acquisitions over the years. billion in July.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

However, the company would be considered rather boring in today's technology climate if not for its merger with chip giant Avago Technologies in 2016. That merger marked the beginning of an acquisition frenzy. But those deals were dwarfed by Broadcom's whopping $69 billion acquisition of cloud software developer VMware in 2023.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Vista Equity Partners has sold an $800m minority stake in LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to a consortium of investors including PSG, Golub Capital, and others.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The high-stakes world of gaming has been abuzz since Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced its bold move to acquire Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI). regulatory agencies, have cast uncertainty on the merger's future. regulatory agencies, have cast uncertainty on the merger's future. Microsoft seeks to purchase a $68.7

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AUGUST 31, 2024

It's making two acquisitions to enhance its footprint, cash flow, and ability to return cash to investors. After closing the deal for GIP's interest in EnLink, Oneok plans to pursue the acquisition of EnLink's publicly traded shares in a tax-free transaction (i.e., a stock-based acquisition). EnLink currently has a $12.3

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 10, 2025

Source: Mergers & Acquisitions Can’t stop reading? read more Apollo mulls $9.5bn stake in Seven & i acquisition Apollo Global Management Inc. read more Prada explores acquisition of Versace from Capri Holdings Prada is evaluating a potential acquisition of Versace from Capri Holdings, with Citi acting as.

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JULY 28, 2024

Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) , a producer of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse automation robots, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) two years ago. Serve Robotics executed a reverse merger with the blank-check company Patricia Acquisition Corp. to about $40 as of this writing.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Joby Aviation went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in 2021 , raising more than $1 billion to help develop and test its eVTOL program. These characteristics could make them easier to mass produce and better suited to operating in dense urban environments. Does Joby Aviation have an edge?

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Citadel had amassed a stake of 5 million shares of Microsoft stock, representing 1.7% Microsoft recently completed its acquisition of Activision, so the position was likely used to leverage the merger arbitrage -- a way to profit from the difference between Activision's then-current stock price and the eventual purchase price.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Brookfield is one of a number of private equity funds adopting a cautious approach to European deals, despite having ample cash, choosing to focusing on exit strategies before committing to new acquisitions, according to a report by Reuters.

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JULY 13, 2024

stake in Celsius, and supercharged its distribution. Furthermore, investors are having an unjustified knee-jerk reaction to Sirius XM's upcoming third-quarter merger with Liberty Sirius XM (NASDAQ: LSXMA) , its tracking stock, and the resulting reverse stock split. The beverage giant made a $550 million investment for an 8.5%

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AUGUST 25, 2024

AST SpaceMobile was founded seven years ago and went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in 2021. Uber spun out Serve Robotics in 2021, and the newly independent company went public through a reverse merger (similar to a SPAC acquisition ) with a blank-check company in 2023.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Waterland Private Equity (Waterland) is selling its majority stake in Netrics, a Swiss workplace and cloud service provider, to Bregal Unternehmerkapital. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close by year-end , have not been disclosed.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 17, 2024

Third, it's worth noting that 3M Healthcare/Solventum was the focus of 3M's merger and acquisition activity over the past five years. stake in Solventum, which it can sell to raise cash. Only the pandemic-impacted year of 2021 took its healthcare revenue growth above the low point of the 4%-6% range. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions represent a major catalyst for Brookfield Renewable, and it has showcased its ability to secure needle-moving deals this year. Other than potential acquisitions from its parent, NextEra Energy Partners is keen on third-party acquisitions to grow its asset base and cash flows.

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

Getting back to the SPAC price Skeptics might consider Archer Aviation a textbook example of the bursting of the 2021 special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) bubble. 10 stocks we like better than Archer Aviation When our analyst team has a stock tip, it can pay to listen. and Archer Aviation wasn't one of them!

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Deidre Woollard: Two state named airlines, one big merger. So yesterday afternoon was all of a sudden a go to your computer moment for me because a big merger in the airline world was announced yesterday. But they talked about what they learned during the Virgin America acquisition. Motley Fool Money starts now.

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JULY 21, 2023

During Berkshire Hathaway's 2022 annual shareholder meeting, Buffett told his audience of more than 30,000 shareholders and investors that his company's stake in Activision Blizzard is a merger/arbitrage play. billion in net long-term debt, much of which came from its 2019 acquisition of Anadarko. With a U.S.

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JULY 3, 2024

Berkshire's currently sitting on a 123-million-share/$16 billion stake in the oil giant, mostly because -- in Buffett's own words -- CEO Vicki Hollub "know[s] how to separate oil from rock, and that's an uncommon talent, valuable to her shareholders and to her country." Berkshire's stake in Visa isn't enormous.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Since Q3 2022, Berkshire has gradually reduced its stake. It's reasonable to assume that at least some of the Chevron stake was a short-term play. In late October, Chevron announced the $53 million all-stock merger with exploration and production company, Hess. Berkshire Hathaway Chevron Shares File Date Holdings As Of Date 110.25

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Brookfield's acquisitions should fuel its growth, especially with its acquisition of around 53% of global renewable energy provider Neoen expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2024. There's some uncertainty about Chevron's pending acquisition of Hess. Can Brookfield Renewable really deliver such a hefty gain?

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 26, 2024

The US asset manager will sell a 71.25% stake in drug wholesaler Geo-Young, the corporate value of which is around $1.4 is set to mark its first exit from South Korea by selling a 71.25% stake in the holding firm of Geo-Young Corp., Private equity giant Blackstone Inc. according to sources. billion), owns 100% of Geo-Young.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) is reportedly exploring a sale of its stake in Western Midstream Partners (NYSE: WES). Here's a look at why Occidental wants to cash in on its stake in the high-yielding MLP (it currently yields 7.5%) and which companies might be interested in the midstream specialist. billion of debt).

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